OUR VISION

• Lilburn Middle School will become a Professional Learning Community committed to working collaboratively to engage students in learning in order to actualize student potential.

OUR MISSION

• Lilburn Middle School is committed to engaging all students in learning the Academic Knowledge and Skills through research-based best practices with mastery being measured by local, state, national, and world-class standards and re-teaching/reassessing students as needed to actualize their potential.

OUR VALUES

• We use research-based best practices to engage students in learning.

• We build healthy relationships with our students, parents, and community members.

• We provide appropriate interventions to support students in actualizing their potential.

• We collaborate with our colleagues toward building a Professional Learning Community.

LSPI Goal #1

• The percentage of students scoring in the Proficient and Distinguished categories will increase to 50% (or higher) with at least 10% Distinguished on the math, language arts, science, and social studies District Assessment Post tests and the Georgia Milestones EOC/EOG Assessments by 2023.

LSPI Goal #2

• The parent perception survey weighted average of the theme scores will increase to 3.6 out of 4, while decreasing the percentage of students scoring in the lowest 10% of the student engagement inventory to 5% by 2023.

LSPI Goal #3

• We will build our parents' capacity to support their children's academic achievement by implementing the activities identified in The Plan/The Promise.

Ruby Bridges was born on September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi. When she was four years old, her parents moved to New Orleans, hoping for a better life. In 1960, when Bridges was in kindergarten, she was one of many African American students in New Orleans who were chosen to take a test, to determine if she could attend a white school.

Ruby Bridges was one of only six African American students to pass the test. She enrolled in the William Frantz School, becoming the first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. Only one teacher agreed to teach Bridges, but she had to teach her in a classroom alone, to keep Ruby safe. Even though some people were mean to Ruby and her family, she was brave! She went on to attend integrated schools all the way through high school.

Her bravery inspired many other children, and paved the way for integration of other schools in the South. Later, Ruby wrote two books about her early experiences, and received the Carter G. Woodson Book Award. In 1999, she established The Ruby Bridges Foundation to promote tolerance and create change through education. In 2001, she was awarded the Presidential Citizen’s Medal by former President Bill Clinton.

Today Ruby Bridges continues to promote education and racial equality.

Quality Plus Teaching Strategy:

• This week’s QPTS Highlight Gone Digital Series focuses on how teachers may leverage small group instruction to scaffold student thinking, check for understanding, and differentiate student learning through Questioning. Also, check out how a dialogic interview format develops deep listening and builds community.

PREVIOUS REMINDERS:

• Please make sure to read the email from Ms. Jameela Hall about Kindness Week. There are activities that are planned each day!

• Early Release Dates February 17th and 18th (see your email with directions from Dr. Maresh)

• This year in an effort to keep everyone safe during the pandemic, students will not exchange Valentine's Day cards and treats especially since we cannot provide an option to our digital students to participate without disrupting the school day. We will send a message out to parents through School Messenger. You can also share information with parents if they ask. Please let your grade level administrator know if you have any questions. We are hopeful that next school year, we will return to celebrating events with our entire student body as we have done in the past.

• RBES Mid-Year Updates

• All certified staff members are required to complete Mid-Year Updates and Professional Learning Goal in the RBES container of the PD&E Tool should be finished. Admin will continue providing feedback/signing off.

• FIP- Effective Feedback and Formative Assessment Ideas Link

Please go to the link below to see the notes that were taken in our FIP Staff Development last Tuesday. It is also located in the Faculty Meeting Google Classroom.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DafOdQiB2AV-YSjbAt-_EvDS2PFct3z3ty1bolMP_Zs/edit

Have a MIGHTY MUSTANG Week!